Foreign Exchange Risk and the Cost of Borrowing Swiss Francs. The chapter demonstrated that a firm borrowing in a foreign currency could potentially end up paying a very different effective rate of interest than what it expected. Using the same baseline values of a debt principal of SF1.5 million, a one year period, an initial spot rate of SF1.5000/$, a 5.000% cost of debt, and a 34% tax rate, what is the effective cost of debt for one year for a U.S. dollar based company if the exchange rate at the end of the period was:

a. SF1.5000/$

b. SF1.4400/$

c. SF1.3860/$

d. SF1.6240/$